One of the things that has always drawn me to books for younger readers is the opportunity (or challenge) to teach, or share information, in an entertaining and exciting story.  This new Disaster Strikes series is a little more overt in its educational aspect (emergency preparedness), but it is still a fiction story at its… Continue reading

Children’s books are often didactic; teaching lessons in (hopefully) creative and entertaining ways.  I can recall, just off the top of my head, books about using the potty, or Everyone Poops, and even recently I reviewed The Kissing Hand, in which a youngster learns it is okay to leave the nest.  This teaching-lesson children’s book, Is… Continue reading

This is it!  This is the next generation of children’s book classics. I am new to the world of Claude and his friend Sir Bobblysock (Oh how I love that name and character!), and I absolutely adored this book! From the humorously original silliness (he wears suntan lotion and whipped cream at the beach) to the many… Continue reading

Lindbergh: The Tale of a Flying Mouse is a gorgeously illustrated picture book. The artwork is so beautiful that I found that I sometimes just get lost, staring at the pictures. The story centers around a French mouse who one day discovered that he was all alone.  Al the other mice had abandoned him or had been… Continue reading